
PETER JAMES LEARN
Composer
SCORES AND RECORDINGS
CHAMBER MUSIC
SCHUMANN RESONANCES (2015) 10'
Clarinet (E-flat+Bass), Cello, Piano, and Percussion
Score Sample:
Video:
Written for the Lunar Ensemble
WHITMAN SONGS (2015) 15' (3 Songs)
Soprano and String Quartet (Text from Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca)
Score Sample:
Video:
ODE TO WALT WHITMAN (LORCA)
MIRACLES (WHITMAN)
Commissioned by Rebekah Smeltzer
A CLEAR MIDNIGHT (WHITMAN)
SHANT (2014) 8'
String Quartet (No. 3)
Score Sample:
Written for and recorded by the
Henri Mancini Institute String Quartet
(Live Performance:)
MECHANISMS AND INTERLUDES (2014) 11'
"Trio d’Anches": Oboe, B-flat Clarinet (Doubling Bass Clarinet), and Bassoon
Score Sample:
Commissioned by
the PEN Woodwind Trio
DUMAS (2014) 14' (4 Movements)
Brass Trio (Trumpet, Horn, Trombone)
Score Sample:
Commissioned by Trombonist
Andrew Friedrichs
I: THREE
II: METAL, IN YOUR FACE
III: ATHOS AND MILADY
IV: MONTE CRISTO
APOLLONIAN ECHO (2014) 10'
Octet (Fl, Ob, Hn in F, 2 Vln, Vla, Vcl, DB)
Score Sample:
Premiered by the
Cleveland Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
AN OTHER TRIO (2013) 13-15' (3 Movements, aleatoric elements)
Violin, Viola, and Throat-singing Trumpeter
Score Sample:
Commissioned by trumpeter Philipe Brunet
and Ensemble IBIS
I: Introit
II: Disintegrations
III: Arias and Pendulums
GRIP (2012) 9'
Alto Saxophone, Violin, and Cello
Score Sample:
Written for the Dinosaur Trio
DIPRIVAN AND FENTANYL (2012) 9'
Amplified, Processed Trombone and String Quartet
Score Sample:
Commissioned by Trombonist Andrew Friedrichs and the FSOM String Quartet
OF FLURRIES AND CLARION (2011) 13'
Pierrot Ensemble and Percussion
Score Sample:
Written for and Premiered by the
Cleveland Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
SCISSION (2011) 5'
2 Trumpets and Piano
Score Sample:
Commissioned by Trumpeter Mike Banewicz
SPECTRE PLEIN DE REDITES (2010) 9'
Violin, Cello, and Piano
Score Sample:
Written for the
Ithaca College Graduate Piano Trio
DREAM LOGIC (2010) 7'
Pierrot Ensemble and Percussion
Score Sample:
Written for Timothy Arnold and
the Ithaca College Graduate Ensemble
POSEIDEN QUINTET (2010) 18' (3 Movements)
Tuba and String Quartet
Commissioned by Tubist Joe Wenzel
Score Sample:
I.
II.
III.
A FINAL, UNEXPECTED GLANCE (2009) 16'
String Quartet (No. 2)
FSOM Graduate Quartet Video
Score Sample:
SQUARING THE CIRCLE (2008) 17' (3 Movements)
Sextet (B-flat Cl, 2 Perc, Pno, Vln, Vcl)
I.
II.
III.
Score Sample:
CAN ONE HEAR THE SHAPE OF A DRUM (2007) 12'
Octet (Fl/Picc, Bass Cl, F Hn, Perc, Pno, 2 Vln, Vcl)
Score Sample:
Written for the
Chicago Chamber Musicians Ensemble
(2006) 14-15' (aleatoric sections)
AND THEN THEY MOWED US DOWN LIKE DOGS
Pierrot Ensemble and Percusssion, with Recitation
Text from interview with Bui Thi Luom, only survivor of Thanh Phom massacre
Score Sample: